IP transit in Skopje for Balkan networks

RS Computers LLC, a network and hosting company based in Prishtina, Kosovo, operates AS213900 and sells IP transit in Skopje from a PoP in the neoDC data centre, for networks in North Macedonia and across the Balkans. The tiers and delivery options are at the top of this page; the IP transit overview shows both PoPs side by side.

Why a PoP in Skopje matters for Balkan networks

Traffic between networks in South East Europe does not always take the short way. In its October 2025 report on the region's internet exchanges, the RIPE NCC traced 40,833 IPv4 paths between RIPE Atlas probes in South East Europe: about 79% stayed in the region and 21% left it before coming back. Vienna and Frankfurt still interconnect many of these networks: large operators built circuits there to reach content, and some hand traffic over there instead of peering locally. Smaller markets such as Kosovo and Albania tend to rely on hubs in neighbouring countries (RIPE NCC, October 2025).

The picture differs by country. Of 72 paths measured inside Albania and Kosovo, which the report counts together, 19 left the country: 26.4%. All 25 paths measured inside North Macedonia stayed in it. DNS is less tidy. North Macedonia has a K-root instance at IXP.mk, yet only 11.1% of 3,236 queries from probes in the country were answered there; the rest went to instances in Sofia and Pavlodar. A local route can exist and still lose to a foreign one in BGP.

IXP.mk in brief

IXP.mk, North Macedonia's internet exchange, started in June 2018 and is run by the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FINKI) of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University. In 2020 the Internet Society provided a switch and fibre multiplexers for a second peering site at Telesmart. The same year Macedonian Telecom and A1 Macedonia joined, membership doubled to 8, and daily average traffic rose from about 80 Mbit/s to 400 to 600 Mbit/s (Internet Society). On 6 October 2026, PeeringDB listed 17 networks on the exchange across three Skopje sites, among them Cloudflare, Hurricane Electric and Packet Clearing House (PeeringDB). An exchange gives you routes to its members. Transit gives you the rest of the internet, so most networks in Skopje want both.

RS Computers on IXP.mk: open peering

RS Computers (AS213900) is connected to IXP.mk with a 100G port. Our peering policy is open: we peer through the IXP.mk route servers and directly with any network on the exchange that asks. Traffic between our network and Macedonian networks therefore stays in Skopje instead of travelling to Vienna or Frankfurt and back, and a transit port at our Skopje PoP reaches those networks over the local exchange too. To peer with us, send your ASN on Telegram or to info@rscomputers-ks.com.

Skopje is also central to its neighbours. Straight-line distances from the city centre:

Distance sets a floor on latency of roughly 1 ms of round trip per 100 km of fibre (M2 Optics), and real routes add to it. For a regional reference point, ping.pe probes reached our Prishtina server in 18.6 ms from Vienna and 27.8 ms from Frankfurt on 6 October 2026. Measure your own path to Skopje before you move traffic.

IP transit in Skopje: one PoP, two remote hand-offs

The AS213900 router in Skopje sits in neoDC, run by Neocom. If your equipment is in one of the other two buildings, order a cross-connect there and RS Computers carries it to the PoP over its own link.

Every cross-connect lands on a 10 Gbit/s port set to the tier you buy, so moving from 1 to 5 or 10 Gbit/s needs no new cabling. RS Computers charges no setup fee on any of the three.

Who buys transit in Skopje

• ISPs and hosting networks in North Macedonia that want a second upstream in a carrier-neutral building, next to the one they already have.
• Networks in Kosovo and Albania that want a path through Skopje instead of, or alongside, the long haul to Vienna or Frankfurt.
• Regional content, streaming and game server nodes that announce their own prefixes and want them close to Balkan users.
• Enterprises with their own ASN that multihome for resilience, with Skopje as one leg and another carrier or our Amsterdam PoP as the other.

If you only need a server in the region, a VPS in Prishtina is simpler; see why buy a VPS in Kosovo.

Flat rate or 95th percentile: a worked example

Many transit providers sell a commit with 95th percentile billing. They sample your port every 5 minutes, which gives 8,640 samples in a 30-day month, discard the highest 5% (432 samples, or 36 hours) and bill the next highest sample.

Take a network that averages 400 Mbit/s and peaks at 900 Mbit/s for three hours every evening. That is 90 hours a month at the peak, well over the 36 hours that get discarded, so the billable rate is about 900 Mbit/s. On a 500 Mbit/s commit, the invoice covers the commit plus 400 Mbit/s of overage.

RS Computers sells transit in Skopje only at flat rate. A 1 Gbit/s port costs the same whether you average 400 Mbit/s or run at 950 Mbit/s all month; the only question is whether your peaks fit the port. Nothing is sampled and no overage invoice follows.

Tunnel delivery from Kosovo, Albania or anywhere

No circuit into Skopje? RS Computers terminates a tunnel on its edge at neoDC and runs the BGP session through it. Supported types are GRE, IPIP, IPsec, WireGuard, VXLAN, L2TPv3, EoIP and OpenVPN. Your prefixes are announced by AS213900 from Skopje, and traffic reaches your router over the upstream you already have.

1. Pick the tunnel your router handles best: EoIP on MikroTik, GRE or WireGuard on almost anything else.
2. Allow for overhead. GRE over IPv4 adds 24 bytes, so on a 1,500-byte path the tunnel MTU is 1,476; clamp TCP MSS to match. We help with these settings.
3. Latency to the tunnel endpoint adds to every path, and your uplink caps throughput.
4. Move to a cross-connect later on the same agreement.

What you need to order

1. A public ASN. Networks in North Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania get one from the RIPE NCC, as a member or through a sponsoring LIR.
2. Your IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes, each with a route or route6 object in an IRR such as the RIPE Database and a ROA for RPKI. If you have downstream customers, an AS-SET that lists them. We validate all of it before the session goes up.
3. A router that speaks BGP and has the memory for a full table, or takes a default route if it does not.
4. Your delivery choice: cross-connect at neoDC, a hand-off at Telesmart or FINKI, or a tunnel type.

Send these details on Telegram or to info@rscomputers-ks.com. There is no contract: you pay one month at a time, with no setup fee and the BGP session included. Transit ports fall under our 99% monthly uptime SLA, with a service credit below 99% and a full refund for any month below 95%.